When I re-entered the fort there was still some shooting going on. I heard a rebel officer tell a soldier not to kill any more of those negroes. He said that they would all be killed, any way, when they were tried.
JOHN NELSON.
Mr. Nelson further states:
After I entered the fort, and after the United States flag had been taken down, the rebels held it up in their hands in the presence of their officers, and thus gave the rebels outside a chance to still continue their slaughter, and I did not notice that any rebel officer forbade the holding of it up. I also further state, to the best of my knowledge and information, that there were not less than three hundred and sixty negroes killed and two hundred whites.
This I give to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOHN NELSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of May, A. D. 1864.
J. D. LLOYD,
Captain 11th Infantry, Mo. Vols., and
Ass'nt Provost Marshal, Dist. of Memphis.
Statement of Frank Hogan, corporal in company A, 6th United States heavy artillery, (colored.)